Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-05

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 4.-Just as tEe
clock in ire tower Of the county court
house last night sounded the first stroke
of twelve, the midnight stiffness was
broken by strains from the bugle of
"Way down upon the Suanee river -
Scarcely had its notes died away when
the members OF the Philadelphia brigade
end Plckett's division began the
celebration CT the glorious Fourth with
the booming Of cannons on East
Cemetery Hill, and the roar of Are
crackers in tne town. pandemOnium
reigued in the town for al hour and g
half. No SUCH noise has disturbed this
little village since the memorable days Of
90 This morning at O'Clock the mem
beers of PiCkett's division proceeded TO
the court house and we're called 20 order
by Colonel Aylett. Some one proposed
that every member Of the division present
should give . cents towards paying the
expenses which Mrs. Pickett incurred
on this visit. The proposition was &C
cepted with cheers, and the way the
money ratified on the seCretsry's desk
was sufficient proof OF the esteem in
which Mrs. PiCkettIs held by the division.
Resolutions were then adopted thanking
the Philadelphia brigade for the hospits-
Bile manner in which they had treated
them, the town authorities for the Way
they had received them, the town officials
for lhe trouble and tine they had given TO
bringing about this reunion and all the
soldiers for their frsterual gree tings.
The meeting adjourned, and outside the
building they ioIned in q procession with
n nh IrfrruIa Di0f-aFF
man linked arms with a Philadelphia man.
The line proceeded to the Eagle
hotel, where the party took carriages and
started over the battle field. in the first
carriage were Mrs. General Pickett and
her son George, Mrs. Charles sBsynes,
wife of the commander of The Philadel-
phia brigade, and Colonel Barker. Fully
100 cgrrisges were in the line which
wound its way through the dust
of the Emmettsbur2 road to Shangler
lsne. Into this it turned
and proceeded past the farmhouse TO
the rising ground beyond. Here all
alighted, and then it went around th8t
Mrs. Pickett was going 10 hold recep-
tiOn on the very ground over which Eer
husbands command had charged, and
within q few yards of the woods under
whose cover he, twenty years before, had
formed his division. The Pickett
men were first formed in line and
one by one advanced and were introduced
TO the wife of their old commander by
ColoneI CIspton OF Richmond, Va, by
name, stating their regiment and rank.
She had 4 word for all and all had word
for her. The Philadelphia brigade was
next presented. Her son, George Pickett,
stood at her side, and when she
dropped hand it was at once grabbed
by MIN. The people then moved to the
highest ground, and Colonel Bachelor
formed the survivors OF Kemper's, Bur
nett's and Armistead's brigade of Pick
ett's division in the order they had been
when the charge began, and asked the
Of each regiment TO step
forward and point out the posi-
ton OF his command. When this
was done the party once more
resumed their ride and took the following
route: Out the Emmittsburg road along
Sick!es' Inc TO the Peach Orchard, thence
across the bloody wheat field to Devils
Den inn, through the "vslley Of death"
on the base Of Round Top, then by Bat
tleheld Avenue, along the Union line,
past the umbrella copse of trees
where Hancock fell wounded, by the
bloody angle, the high-wster mark of the
past Mead's quarters, through
the beautiful National cemetery and en-
tered the town by the Baltimore pike
over which the troops retreated after
the bloody struggle. Mrs, Pickett
WAS the centre Of attraction on the